I completely disagree. I was very excited for Punk winning, and I think he deserves this. Shelton sucks and botches moves every match he is in. Christian just returned after abandoning the company for 3 years. Kane had never recovered from losing his mask and has not drawn a fan since then.

Punk has vast potential. His last world championship run wasn't a flop. They refused to put him over anyone besides Snitsky and JBL, which will make any champion look weak. What was he supposed to do when they would tell him "you are champion, but you need to job to batista, let JBL have all the mic time, and then lose the belt without being in the match"? Whenever he was given a chance to talk, he was great on the mic, and his matches were very entertaining (except for some of the lame finishes). Ratings were consistently higher during his title run than they were for anyone's after him. If Punks reign is viewed as weak, then it'd be because he lost the belt and everyone assumed he would have an epic storyline to get revenge, but instead they booked him to just take the tag team belts and be done with it all after jobbing to Randy Orton.